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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Top 60 Greatest Players (Philippine National Basketball Team)

A year ago, August 15, 2009, I started a thread topic about the Top 50 Greatest Players of the Philippine National Basketball Team in the Interbasket Forum and has since been expanded to 60 players thanks to my fellow Filipino forumers. Anyway, since I got a blog now, I might as well post it here and it just fitting to re-post it exactly one year since that thread started. The players listed here are according to their contributions for Flag and Country.

Top 60Greatest Players (Philippine National Team)(In no particular order.. except for who is number 1 of course)

I made a list of 60 greatest players who ever played for the Philippine national team. Based on how many times they have represented the country not on how popular they were or how they performed in the MICAA, PBL, MBA or PBA (their performance in all those leagues has nothing to do with it). It also, only, includes the international tournaments for the national teams such as the Asian Games, FIBA Asia Championships, FIBA World Championships, Olympic Games, as well as the FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup, FIBA Asia Youth Championship, Far Eastern Games, South East Asian Games, SEABA and the William Jones Cup. Club Tournaments such as the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, World Interclub or SEABA Club Championships will not be included nor the minor and invitational tournaments such as the 4-Nations Invitationals, Dubai Invitationals, Exhibition Series, Brunei Cup, etc. Some players might have missed out from this list and some players are not rank according to your perspective but just like I mentioned above "In no particular order.. except for who is number 1 of course" and if you don't like it, then hey its my list!. My main source on this one is the "Legends and Heroes of Philippine Basketball" by Dr. Christian Bocobo and Beth Celis.

The Big Difference: Carlos Loyzaga

Carlos “Caloy” Loyzaga - Asian Games (1951, 1954, 1958, 1962), Asian Championship (1960, 1963), World Championship (1954, 1959), Olympic Games (1952, 1956), World Championship Mythical Team (1954), Asian Championship Mythical Team (1960) [Arguably the greatest Filipino player of all time, lead the country to several Asian titles and Asia’s best finished in the World Championship.]

3 comments:

its a great article ,i just wanted to know that in 6o's there was one player from India Mr. Khushi Ram , i heard he was the best player in Asia and in 1970 in Phillipines he was honoured as best pivot player and the most valuable player of asia , if you have details of 1969 and 1967 asian championship , please put it on site , thanks